Ground Operations
An airport is a small city that must never stop. Someone has to run it.
Monthly, KES
90k – 500k
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Forty-five minutes to unload, clean, cater, fuel, load and dispatch. Go.
Ground handlers turn aircraft around on the ramp: loading, servicing, marshalling and dispatching every flight.
The ramp is where aviation's schedule is actually won or lost. A turnaround is a choreographed operation with a dozen parties working around a live aircraft in a confined, noisy, hazardous environment — and a hard deadline.
The specialist role goes well beyond lifting: load control calculates weight and balance and produces the loadsheet that determines whether the aircraft can safely fly; turnaround coordination sequences every party on the stand; dangerous goods acceptance is a certified legal responsibility.
Get weight and balance wrong and the aircraft's handling characteristics change. This is a serious technical job wearing a high-visibility vest.
Receive the flight's load plan and brief the ramp team.
Marshal the aircraft onto stand and connect ground power.
Supervise unloading and loading against the load instruction report.
Calculate weight and balance, issue the loadsheet to the crew.
Dispatch the aircraft and confirm the stand is clear.
KCSE mean grade C-, with Mathematics at C- or above for load control.
IATA Airport Handling and ramp safety training.
IATA DGR certification — a legal requirement and a genuine differentiator.
Weight and balance certification, then licensed load controller status.
Turnaround Coordinator → Ramp Supervisor → Station Manager.
Ramp Agent → Load Controller → Turnaround Coordinator → Ramp Supervisor → Station Manager.
The industry's widest front door. Many senior airport and airline managers started on the ramp, and certification — not tenure — is what accelerates progression.
An airport is a small city that must never stop. Someone has to run it.
Monthly, KES
90k – 500k
When a storm closes an airport, you decide which flights live and which ones die.
Monthly, KES
75k – 320k
We deliver these pathways in person, with someone who does the job standing at the front of the room.